Any kind of public facing site has to support IE6, especially if it's ecommerce. It's not acceptable to tell potential customers to go download another web browser. Most people will just go shop somewhere else, and probably never come back. Nothing leaves a bad taste in people's mouths like being told immediately they have to go download something.
At least we have jQuery to help us with IE6 support. -- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: Guy Fraser To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: [jQuery] [OT] Re: [jQuery] Re: anti IE6 MorningZ wrote: Any many huge corporations and govt branches are slow to update as well.... it's certainly not their fault, so why would you purposefully annoy them? Because if you don't annoy them, they keep using IE6, and we have to keep putting up with the pain of supporting it. Many web developers still have the crazy notion that we should support IE6. However, doing so only causes us more pain because people using IE6 mistakenly believe that they have a good browser and therefore never get rid of it so the pain continues. The only feasible way to kill off IE6 is to simply stop supporting it. When the customer or end-user complains, explain that their browser is broken and that they should upgrade to a free, modern browser like Firefox, Opera or Safari/Webkit. Think about it, if your car was broken would you expect all the roads in the country to be modified to counter the broken car? No, it would be ludicrous. The broken car would be fixed or destroyed for the good of humanity. Yet, it seems, in the web world we continue this crazy self-destructive act of supporting the most widespread and heavily broken browser the entire planet has ever encountered. It has to stop. There's nothing stopping large organisations from installing a modern browser alongside IE6 - IE6 can then still be used for their broken intranet, the modern browser can be used for everything else. Visit: http://www.savethedevelopers.org
